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Nigeria and Cameroon plan to create a cross-border park to protect rare birds and a type of endangered chimpanzee threatened by the bushmeat trade, a conservation group said last Thursday. The announcement was made at the 5th World Parks Congress in the South African port city of Durban, where more than 2,000 scientists, policymakers, and activists are meeting to examine the state of the world's protected areas.